Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colombo Bus Routes


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. Nja 247 08:50, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Colombo Bus Routes

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This information may be more appropriate for the bus company's web site. This list is not encyclopedic. Pastor Theo (talk) 10:32, 18 April 2009 (UTC) 
 * Delete - This is not notable in anyway and is more of an advertisement than anything else. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk | Sign 13:26, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as hopelessly incomplete listcruft that should be a subsection of an article on that city's public transport infrastructure, if at all. Eddie.willers (talk) 15:55, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - This isn't a bus company, but the municipal bus routes of the city of Colombo, the capitol of Sri Lanka. We generally have bus route lists  of major cities (List of Chicago Transit Authority bus routes and List of bus routes in Queens for examples).  There's no reason to start systemic bias against this one.--Oakshade (talk) 06:54, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep - We already have loads of perfectly acceptable and encyclopaedic lists of bus routes, not sure why this one has been singled out! Jenuk1985  |  Talk  00:57, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 03:29, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep The list is a mess, and needs a complete clean-up, but deletion is not clean-up. As a subject matter, the list seems perfectly acceptable, even if it is poorly executed here.  --Jayron32. talk . contribs  03:59, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - I hate to do this, but the creator of this article seems disinterested and it will probably never be improved. This is the only article they have ever done. The question is, who will contribute the required edits? Would anyone who has called for the article's retention have created this mess if it didn't exist? Sadly, I agree that it should be given over to the Daleks and exterminated! -Secondarywaltz (talk)


 * Keep We wouldnt keep articles on the individual routes, but we should keep the combination article. Not just the author but anyone  can improve the article from sources. DGG (talk) 20:41, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh I agree in theory; but its been a week and nobody wants to take it on. It would be worse than researching the article from scratch, and that is why I have challenged somebody, anybody, to improve this bad, bad, article. Incomplete list, unreferenced material, no external links, no wikilinks, no related bus company, etc. Where would you start? Lists for other cities relate to existing articles about the bus companies and agencies that operate the routes and that is why they have some validity. I hate to delete anything needlessly - I want to be informed.-Secondarywaltz (talk) 21:34, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete This is not an article. This is rubbish. FairFare (talk) 03:06, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Bus routes in a major city are a valid topic for an encyclopedic article. Sure, this needs work but there's no time limit. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:17, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for trying to help. The list appears to be cut and pasted from some unknown source but could also be entirely fictional without references. Now things are at least tidy. All I can find are references to bus bombings!!! Secondarywaltz (talk) 23:04, 28 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete per not a public transit guide. Routes change all the time, there is no article here.Bali ultimate (talk) 10:33, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep Has a good start, but I believe it needs more information, as it doesn't really tell us anything except which stations go where. It needs more basic information. Renaissancee (talk) 23:50, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.